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How to Auto-Advance PowerPoint 2016 Slides

How to Auto-Advance PowerPoint 2016 Slides

By Mitch Bartlett 11 Comments

Want to automatically advance the slides during your presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016? You can using these steps.

  1. Open the presentation file you wish to automate, then select “Home“
  2. Select anywhere in the left “Slides” pane.
  3. Select the individual slide you would like to advance automatically. If you want to advance all of the slides for the same amount of time, select one slide in the left pane, then press “Ctrl” + “A” to highlight all slides.
  4. Select the “Transitions” tab.
  5. In the “Advance Slide” area, check the “After” check box, then set the amount of time that should elapse before PowerPoint advances to the next slide. You can also select the transition effect, such as “Cut“, “Fade“, or “Wipe“.

Now your slides should change to the next one automatically. You can test the functionality by going to “View” > “Reading View“

FAQ

Why don’t I have the Advance Slide option showing in my Powerpoint?

Be sure that the window is maximized so that you can see all of the options on the ribbon. If it is still missing, you can add the button back by selecting the “Customize Quick Access” arrow, then selecting “More commands…” at the upper-left portion of the window. From there select “Quick Access Toolbar” to modify the options available. You should be able to add the “Transition” command from the left side of the screen to the right.

If you want to take the easy way, just select the “Reset” button.

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Filed Under: Office Tagged With: Powerpoint 2016

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Comments

  1. Ken Yoder says

    April 22, 2020 at 10:38 am

    I want to create a delay so a person can not rapidly click through a PowerPoint learning module. Basically – click and when you click for next slide, it won’t advance for a certain time. You still would advance by click only.

  2. Dattu says

    January 28, 2020 at 1:35 pm

    Hi,
    it’s working for me, Thanks for help….

  3. Meredith says

    January 22, 2020 at 10:22 am

    I have done all you’ve suggested but the slide won’t transition and the audio keeps going.

  4. Sondra W says

    December 22, 2019 at 5:01 pm

    Thank you

  5. Dean Nixon says

    September 11, 2019 at 12:45 pm

    Hi Mitch,

    It’s still not happening for me.

    I want my slides with video clips to auto-advance at the end of the video clip. Instead, what I get is the black box with the video, ready to be played again.

    How do I get that video slide to auto-advance to the next slide?

    Thank you.

  6. stephen parrish says

    September 6, 2019 at 2:42 am

    Thank you so much.
    I am putting together a slideshow for my friends wedding and working out how to auto progress them was doing my head in.
    You explained it so clearly !

  7. Mary says

    February 28, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    Did this help? Yes it did! Thanks for your time, energy and expertise.

  8. Randy Miller says

    February 18, 2019 at 11:49 am

    I have basically the same problem as Peter above, I have 14 slides and a song that is 3 minutes long. I’d like to have music in the background and the slides to change ever 13 seconds, but haven’t be able to make that happen. Help!

  9. Joan Boysen says

    October 22, 2018 at 9:25 am

    We are a church and use PowerPoint every week to project our order of worship, songs, etc. These slides are advance by a mouse click as we have someone stationed at the sound/media center. We now have created a number of slides related to upcoming events. We have these slides set up to automatically advance and are on a loop so it can run continuously until the service begins.

    Our question is can we incorporate the auto-advance/looping slides into the prezo that advances by mouse click. In this way, the media operator could click escape and seamlessly move to the first slide of the worship service. Is this possible?

    Thank you.

  10. Peter Charalambos says

    October 6, 2018 at 1:09 pm

    Sadly no.
    I have a small presentation of 7 slides.in PP 2016.
    Slide 1 is a video
    I highlighted slide 2 to 7and inserted audio from my computer.
    Slide 1 plays the short intro video then advances to slide 2 where the music starts but from there the slides don’t advance.
    Are you able to help….I don’t know if this site is a ‘help me’ site
    I’m in the UK

  11. Norm Beers says

    September 11, 2018 at 12:29 pm

    Thanks for your effort on this, Mitch–and for sharing it..

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